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IBM i An executive guide to IBM’s strategy and roadmap for its integrated operating environment for Power Systems An IBM® White Paper IBM i Strategy and Roadmap 2 IBM i Strategy and Roadmap Introduction IBM i is the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems™, which is used by over 150,000 businesses around the world. The integrated database architecture of IBM i, with its heritage in the AS/400, iSeries and System i, provides a foundation for running a wide variety of industry applications, and helps businesses deliver services faster, with higher quality and with superior economics. In 2008, IBM brought together System i and System p® into a unified POWER processor-based platform: IBM Power Systems. In 2010, IBM delivered new POWER7 processor-based systems, a new release of IBM i, and enhancements across our Power Systems Software portfolio, including PowerVM virtualization and PowerHA resiliency software. Our IBM i clients can take full advantage of IBM’s leading processors, servers, storage and software portfolio. We prioritize our IBM i strategy and new capabilities based on requirements and feedback on business value from our client advisory councils: representing mid-sized companies, large enterprises and our solutions providers. Their input and our technology investments have ensured that our IBM i clients are in the mainstream of major industry initiatives including business analytics, cloud technologies, and enterprise application modernization. Colin Parris General Manager This white paper is designed to help IT executives understand of our IBM Power Systems strategy and roadmap for the IBM i operating environment. You will find that our commitment to our IBM i clients, ISVs and business partners is solid and unchanged. We continue to make substantial investments in the future of IBM i as an important, strategic element in our IBM systems portfolio. Colin Parris General Manager, IBM Power Systems 3 IBM i Strategy and Roadmap Smarter Computing and IBM i The planet is getting smaller, flatter and smarter every day. Global market segments are connected as never before. Economic shock waves, both good and bad, travel the globe in nanoseconds. Newer, smarter technologies arrive daily. New business models are born, and old ones die, in the blink of an eye. Things we never thought of as computers - cars, clothing, appliances, electrical grids, traffic systems and supply chains - are now instrumented for intelligence. These intelligent objects, systems and processes are generating data that reveals just about anything, from large and systemic patterns to the location, temperature, security and condition of practically every item in a global supply chain. With this knowledge, we are able to lower costs, reduce waste, and improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of systems, companies, cities and more. Smarter companies are thinking differently about computing and how to deal with data that is growing exponentially and which can become stagnant and unexploited simply because of its sheer volume. These companies are embracing smarter computing to break the vicious cycle of untrustworthy data and server sprawl. They are creating IT infrastructures that are designed for data, harnessing information to unlock business insights and make better, more informed choices. Their IT infrastructures are tuned to the task of their business challenges, with optimized systems that combine hardware, software and industry domain knowledge or expertise. And they are managing their IT infrastructure with cloud technologies, accelerating the provisioning and delivery of services. In this new smarter computing era, forward-thinking companies consider more than server performance, existing skills and ease of management when choosing a platform for new application workloads. They also evaluate how well the platform will help them achieve three core business objectives: delivering services to their business faster, with higher quality, and superior economics. By implementing their business applications on the IBM i platform, companies can outpace their competitors by delivering services faster. They can differentiate their offerings from the competition by delivering higher quality services. And they can turn operational cost into investment opportunity by delivering services with superior economics. Power Systems For many years IBM offered two major server platforms for its IBM i and AIX® (UNIX) customers: System i (formerly AS/400) and System p (formerly RS/6000®). In the early 1990s, IBM successfully consolidated its investments in the POWER processor, server and software technologies so that they could be exploited by both platforms. In 1997, for example, they first shared the same POWER processors and in 2000, they used the same remote I/O bus architecture. In 2004, they shared the system chassis designs, as well as the first common PowerVM hypervisor that supported virtualization for all three POWER operating environments: AIX, IBM i and Linux. Even though they shared many common components, the two systems continued to 4 IBM i Strategy and Roadmap be sold as two distinct platform offerings, focused on two separate market segments, with different terms and conditions. In April 2008, System i and System p were unified into the new Power Systems platform: a single product line that runs AIX, IBM i and Linux applications. The new Power Systems offered common pricing for hardware components, common I/O options, and common terms and conditions, including for maintenance and support. The result has been that the new Power Systems platform is simpler for customers to buy, and simpler for ISVs and business partners to sell and support. It also has ensured that companies using IBM i applications are positioned in the mainstream of IBM’s server and storage technology investments, alongside companies that use AIX and Linux. Now, when IBM ships a new Power Systems server, it provides concurrent support for all three operating systems, which has accelerated access to new technology for IBM i clients. The current Power Systems servers, blade and compute node portfolio feature POWER7 processors and the latest IBM i 7.1 release. Clients can easily upgrade from earlier releases of IBM I, preserving the decades long heritage of binary compatibility and application investment protection. In fact, some companies still run applications on today’s POWER7 systems that were first written on the System/38 in 1979, without change or recompilation. With the recent announcement of IBM PureSystems servers, IBM i continues to be in the forefront of Power Systems technologies. Clients choosing an IBM PureFlex Server may select IBM i as their Operating System of choice. In addition to common hardware technologies, Power Systems offers common platform software technologies, such as PowerVM for server virtualization, PowerHA for high availability, and IBM Systems Director for platform and energy management. Using common platform software technologies with AIX and Linux, again better positions IBM i in the mainstream of IBM’s systems software portfolio. The Power Systems platform offers businesses a highly flexible deployment platform for new applications. With a wide variety of IBM i, AIX and Linux applications to choose from, it is easier than ever before to optimize workloads deployed across multiple operating systems on the Power Systems platform. 5 IBM i Strategy and Roadmap The Value of IBM i IBM i running on an IBM Power Systems server offers a highly scalable and robust architecture with a proven reputation for exceptional business resilience and low operational costs. Running applications based on IBM i has helped companies over many years to focus on innovation and on delivering new value to their business, not on managing their data center operations. IBM i provides a fully integrated and optimized combination of relational database, trusted role and object based security model, as well as integrated networking and storage management capabilities required to run business applications. The integrated SQL standards-compliant DB2® for IBM i database includes advanced database management utilities. IBM i also includes additional integrated middleware components such as multiple file systems, directory, an HTTP Web-server powered by Apache, a Web application server and a Web-services environment. IBM’s integration, optimization and testing of IBM i is a key factor in allowing companies to realize lower operations costs by enabling them to deploy applications faster and maintaining them with fewer staff. IBM develops, fully tests and pre-loads the core middleware components of IBM i together, up front; whereas, on other platforms, the operating system, database and middleware are typically integrated and tested by clients in their data center. This broad and highly stable database and middleware foundation is ideal for efficiently deploying business applications, with support for over 2,300 solutions from over 850 ISVs. IBM i solutions are offered through an extensive, highly skilled worldwide network of certified IBM Business Partners that is backed by IBM’s trusted services and support infrastructure. Virtualization also enables businesses with IBM i to consolidate and run multiple applications and components together on the same system, driving up system utilization and delivering a better return on IT investments. IBM i has included subsystem virtualized workload management within the operating system since 1979, which enables application components
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